normotension en · NOUN
Etymology
From normo- + tension.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Blood pressure that is within the normal range.
On examination, then, the distinction between an authority and an impostor turns out to be a little like that between hypertension and normotension, a matter of degree rather than of kind.
2025, Theodore Dalrymple, Nothing But Wickedness: The Delusions of Our Culture: